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Levodopa-Induced Dyskinesia Is Related to Indirect Pathway Medium Spiny Neuron Excitotoxicity: A Hypothesis Based on an Unexpected Finding

A serendipitous pharmacogenetic finding links the vulnerability to developing levodopa-induced dyskinesia to the age of onset of Huntington's disease. Huntington's disease is caused by a polyglutamate expansion of the protein huntingtin. Aberrant huntingtin is less capable of binding to a...

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Autores principales: Ivanova, Svetlana A., Loonen, Anton J. M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4837280/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27144051
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/6461907